The Book of Ruth 4

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¹ Then went Boaz up to the gate and sat him down there and behold the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by unto whom he said Ho such a one turn aside sit down here And he turned aside and sat down ⚑

² And he took ten men of the elders of the city and said Sit ye down here And they sat down ⚑

³ And he said unto the kinsman Naomi that is come again out of the country of Moab selleth a parcel of land which was our brother El elech’s ⚑

⁴ And I thought to advertise thee saying Buy it before the inhabitants and before the elders of my people If thou wilt redeem it redeem it but if thou wilt not redeem it then tell me that I may know for there is none to redeem it beside thee and I am after thee And he said I will redeem it ⚑

⁵ Then said Boaz What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess the wife of the dead to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance ⚑

⁶ And the kinsman said I cannot redeem it for myself lest I mar mine own inheritance redeem thou my right to thyself for I cannot redeem it ⚑

⁷ Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing for to confirm all things a man plucked off his shoe and gave it to his neighbour and this was a testimony in Israel ⚑

⁸ Therefore the kinsman said unto Boaz Buy it for thee So he drew off his shoe ⚑

⁹ And Boaz said unto the elders and unto all the people Ye are witnesses this day that I have bought all that was El elech’s and all that was ilion’s and ahlon’s of the hand of Naomi ⚑

¹⁰ Moreover Ruth the Moabitess the wife of Mahlon have I purchased to be my wife to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren and from the gate of his place ye are witnesses this day ⚑

¹¹ And all the people that were in the gate and the elders said We are witnesses The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah which two did build the house of Israel and do thou worthily in Ephratah and be famous in Beth-lehem ⚑

¹² And let thy house be like the house of Pharez whom Tamar bare unto Judah of the seed which the LORD shall give thee of this young woman ⚑

¹³ So Boaz took Ruth and she was his wife and when he went in unto her the LORD gave her conception and she bare a son ⚑

¹⁴ And the women said unto Naomi Blessed be the LORD which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman that his name may be famous in Israel ⚑

¹⁵ And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life and a nourisher of thine old age for thy daughter in law which loveth thee which is better to thee than seven sons hath born him ⚑

¹⁶ And Naomi took the child and laid it in her bosom and became nurse unto it ⚑

¹⁷ And the women her neighbours gave it a name saying There is a son born to Naomi and they called his name Obed he is the father of Jesse the father of David ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain